Board Games

 

“Board Acorn, C3-delta to F7-alpha” They put out the pulse from the earliest Time Node and it propagated up the line. With all of time to explore, they needed something to keep track of all the moves from everyone to stay in sync.

Each board was an era of time and a set of people. The positions on the board were the level of experiment, exact target and Time Node in charge.

Board Acorn was slightly before the Collapse, and a set of people that had the most Temporal potential.

C3 delta was a mapping experiment done by a time node somewhat distant, but still within a thousand years of alpha.

Alpha was the gateway time, and things had to go through them to go back farther.

They got forwarded all the information from the mapping. They became F7, which was a move that had to be approved from further up the line. It allowed them to do a bit more involved experiment than simply monitoring.

C was Common, and for the Acorn set of people, that was Time related work, though for that era mostly theoretical or semi-fictional. 3 was cubed. That meant all reasonable possibilities were covered. That was up to and including subconscious memory of previous pulls thought erased.

The mapping made sure that any insights that might be gained from any natural interaction were done, documented and reset. It was as if everyone in the target group was cloned, put into a million identical rooms, and run through different stimuli to see what would happen.

That made for a cloud of information that was a backup, in case their normal path through events was interrupted. They could still be steered back to any particular discovery or insight.

F7 was a functional experiment. One that could upset things if not already backed up.

For the moment though, the approval had opened a lot of doors. They looked at the map of possibilities and tried to steer toward one.

But first, something small. They used the Narration Field to nudge the cat toward the window.